Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting
Fulfillment

In this national bestseller -- Martin Seligman's most stimulating, persuasive
book to date -- the acclaimed author of Learned Optimism introduces yet another
revolutionary idea. Drawing on groundbreaking scientific research, Seligman
shows how Positive Psychology is shifting the profession's paradigm away from
its narrow-minded focus on pathology, victimology, and mental illness to
positive emotion and mental health. Happiness, studies show, is not the result
of good genes or luck. It can be cultivated by identifying and nurturing traits
that we already possess -- including kindness, originality, humor, optimism, and
generosity.

Seligman provides the tools you need in order to ascertain your most positive
traits or strengths. Then he explains how, by frequently calling upon these
"signature strengths" in all the crucial realms of life -- health,
relationships, career -- you will not only develop natural buffers against
misfortune and negative emotion, but also achieve new and sustainable levels of
authentic contentment, gratification, and meaning.